Name: Fascinating biology
Start: 2025-05-20T19:30:00
End: 2025-05-20T21:30:00
Location: The Real Ale Classroom

Tonight we're looking at different ways to detect heart disease and failure and how changes in genes can be passed on through generations.

Using the human retina to inform us about risk of cardiovascular disease

Dr Christian French (Consulting Neuro-Optometrist & Professor of Optometry)

My research focuses on pressure in the retina of they eye and what it can tell us about your risk of developing heart disease.

Getting Ahead of a Broken Heart: Catching Heart Failure Early with Blood Biomarkers!

Nikita Bhakta (Mass Spectrometry Proteomics PhD Student at the University of Leicester)

Nikita will discuss her PhD research on using mass spectrometry to identify novel heart failure markers and develop a blood test for earlier diagnosis and treatment.

Your Genes are listening: how your environment shapes your DNA

Chloe Cranfield (PhD student researching the transgenic epigenetics of pollution's effects on gene expression and inheritance at Leicester University)

Dylan McBride (PhD student at the University of Leicester - research focusing on environmentally-induced transgenerational disease in the freshwater crustacean Daphnia magma)

We are looking at how pollution changes genes and can be passed down through generations, especially in tiny freshwater crustaceans called Daphnia.

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